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WiFi Exposes Sensitive Student Data
cfarivar writes "'Like leaving a vault open, the Palo Alto Unified School District failed to place a number of highly sensitive computer files containing student information in a locked location on its network. Using a laptop with a wireless card outside the district's main office, the Palo Alto Weekly gained access to such data as grades, home phone numbers and addresses, emergency medical information complete with full-color photos of students and a psychological evaluation."
And you Americans chucking so much cash at it just proves just how stupid you lot really are.
...and no one at all was surprised. How hard can it be to secure your networks?
Dude, where's my packet?
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... psychological evaluations?
;)
what kind of school is this?
i would never let my school asses me mentaly, that's a major privacy violation if u ask me
besides, im a little crazy...
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Given that this was in California, the drug me state... I wonder if all of the students have been put on Ritalin yet.
Think of the poor starving children in Africa that can't afford their Ritalin, running around and playing like... kids.
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You think that's bad. Wait until the RIAA finds out they cracked into the school district computer and downloaded an MP3 file...
Karma: Marginal (mostly due to the border around the website)
Yes,
.. right. No this is something completely different. See "Farewell My Concubine" for reference ;-)
Because we underfund our education system and treat teachers like shit. In the east, teaching is the most revered of positions.
Beyond that, a brat in the orient would be taken out of class and whipped with a cane. Yeah, I know your thinking, a swat
They learn quick to keep their mouths shut and listen to teachers. A parent in the orient would suffer great shame if they got a note about their kids behavior. The community would shun the parents until they fixed the problem.
This is the primary problem with US education today. The kids won't keep their mouths shut, and neither the parents nor the administrators will remove them.
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I still need to do something to protect the wireless network where I work. I hope they don't think I did it already.